Biographical records, 1910-1970.

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Biographical records, 1910-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430963098

This collection is Leona Running's research materials used to write her book, William Foxwell Albright: A 20th Century Genius. Included are extensive transcripts (and cassette recordings) of many interviews with family members colleagues, and former students. Additionally, there are over 700 photocopies or re-typed excepts from Albright's correspondence.

11 boxes (4.75 linear ft.).

Andrews University, James White Library Information Gateway

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Andrews University, James White Library Information Gateway

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Running, Leona Glidden, 1916-

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Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971

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William Foxwell Albright was an Orientalist, archaeologist, and linguist. After receiving his Ph.D. from John Hopkins in 1916, he took a professorship there in 1927, and then served as the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, 1930-1958. As the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922-1929 and then 1933-1936, he accomplished important archaeological work and excavated at the , excavating, for example, at such significant sites in Palestine as Gibeah (Tell el...